Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Rajastan, India
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Rajastan, India
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nepal, Pakistan
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Gujarati Language
  
Alphabets in
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Marwari-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
khammaghani
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
dhanyavaad
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Kikan ho sa?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
shubh raatri
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Shubh Honjh
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Shubh Befar
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Shubh Havar
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
kirpa
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Maaf Karo
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
bye
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
main tanne pyaar karoon
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
maaf karo
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Jogi
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
India
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Bagri
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Dhundhari
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
14.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Marwari
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
  
French Name
singhalais
  
marvari
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Marwari
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Marwari or Marwadi
  
Origin
3
  
16
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Marwari
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
raja1256
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Marwari Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sinhalese and Marwari greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Marwari language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Marwari word for "Thank You" is dhanyavaad. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Marwari Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Marwari Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Marwari difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Marwari Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sinhalese and Marwari are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Marwari, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Marwari time required is 44 weeks.